Ref: Message: 10 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:31:04 -0700 From: "Damon Estep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Pitching Asterisk http://www.millenigence.com/articles/asterisk-non-technical-review.pdf
Be careful about the last few paragraphs of this PDF, if possible, before this paper is provided to any members of "upper management", the lines that will ring the most bells' are, and I am quoting here " Performance of Asterisk has not been explored much. While the claim is that Asterisk can scale well, there is no test data showing that Asterisk can support large number of users without performance penalty. There is no easy way to cluster Asterisk installations to scale up and match the performance of legacy PBX systems". I would highly recommend drawing a diagram up in place of that paragraph and showing how multiple Asterisk servers in a communication rack, connected to their own 10/100/1000 Mbps VLAN can be aggregated to provide thousands of H.323, SIP or IAX call processing, provided that each desktop is connected via a IP telephone such as http://ipphone.eezeephone.com/index_files/Page640.htm, but there are plenty of other such devices on the internet that may do the job of "data + telephony". I would actually suggest that while test data is not available, at least some of the commercial users of Asterisk should be honest and provide voluntary data about their large scale implementations or if Digium knows, they can do a customer survey (i.e., how many Apache's are in use) and report the summary results per annum to measure the growth/adoption rate. -samudra --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.804 / Virus Database: 546 - Release Date: 12/2/2004 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
